The People’s Republic of China (PRC) was proclaimed in Tiananmen Square by Mao Zedong on October 1, 1949. By that time, Taiwan had already been retroceded to the Republic of China (ROC) by Japan.
Taiwan had been a Japanese colony from 1895 to 1945. The retrocession of Taiwan to the ROC was celebrated by a public holiday until fairly recently. Taiwan has not been governed by the PRC for even a single minute.
The ROC was founded on October 10, 1911, follo…